Consider a sinnsoidal plane electromagnetic wave propagating in -y direction in vacuum. If the amplitude of the electric field component of the wave is (12 V/m)k, what is the magnitude and the direction of the maguetic field component?

Consider a sinnsoidal plane electromagnetic wave propagating in -y direction in vacuum. If the amplitude of the electric field component of the wave is (12 V/m)k, what is the magnitude and the direction of the maguetic field component?

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Consider a sinnsoidal plane electromagnetic wave propagating in -y direction
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If the amplitude of the electric field component of the wave is (12 V/m)k,
what is the magnitude and the direction of the maguetic field component?

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